Tryon Edwards Quotes
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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
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There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
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Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.
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To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.
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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
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Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.
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Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
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The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves - our weaknesses, errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all.
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The leaves do not change color from the blighting touch of the frost, but from the process of natural decay. They fall when the fruit has been ripened and their work is done. And their splendid change of coloring is but their graceful and beautiful surrender of life, when they have finished their summer offering of service to God and man.
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
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Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.
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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
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He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
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Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
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Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
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True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
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Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.
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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
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Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
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Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.
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Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.
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